27. You realize, I hope, that the root cause of all those actions is... <gasp> our elected officals?

We go where we're told to go, and try our best to do what we're told to do, usually by those same elected officals, who have no clue what result they want or how to actually do it. (For example: Who the hell thinks they can install western-style democracy into places that hate the west and don't know didly from democracy, culturally or educationally?)